{"id":969,"date":"2006-09-14T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T18:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/09\/14\/philosophia-naturalis\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T18:49:02","slug":"philosophia-naturalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/philosophia-naturalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophia Naturalis"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new physics-oriented blog carnival, Philosophia Naturalis<\/a>, has just appeared at Science and Reason<\/a>. Here’s some background explanation<\/a>. Looks like a great selection of articles.<\/p>\n

To celebrate the birth of this new project, I’ll mention this quote from Al Franken<\/a>, who is contemplating a Senate run in 2008:<\/p>\n

There’s all kinds of things that need to be done. Respecting science again. I would like to do a law where no political appointee can change the language of a scientific report<\/a> without getting the scientists who made the report to sign off on the language change. That’s a law I’d propose on the first day, I think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Franken brought this up unprompted during an interview with Lindsay Beyerstein<\/a>. It shows an admirably pro-natural-philosophy viewpoint.<\/p>\n

In contrast, we have George W. Bush<\/a>, who sees his foreign policy as part of a new religious rebirth:<\/p>\n

“A lot of people in America see this as a confrontation between good and evil, including me,” Bush said during a 1 1\/2 -hour Oval Office conversation on cultural changes and a battle with terrorists that he sees lasting decades. “There was a stark change between the culture of the ’50s and the ’60s — boom — and I think there’s change happening here,” he added. “It seems to me that there’s a Third Awakening.”<\/p>\n

The First Great Awakening refers to a wave of Christian fervor in the American colonies from about 1730 to 1760, while the Second Great Awakening is generally believed to have occurred from 1800 to 1830.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, the one who views his actions through the lens of a titanic supernatural struggle is the President of the United States, while the one who faces up to the real world is a comedian. Draw your own conclusions about the decline of Western civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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